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Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime, Valeria Tapia Cruz, Mairi Cowan   +2 more
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Pablo Magaña
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Permissibility of Euthanasia- A Bangladesh Context

Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics
Survival is obviously important, but sometimes, under particular circumstances, life can become miserable, difficult, or intolerable; at that point, survival can seem like a punishment or misfortune.
Nilufa Yasmin
doaj   +1 more source

Russia and the Birth of Right‐Wing Terrorism: Mass Politics, Antisemitism, and the Assassination of Mikhail Gertsenshtein

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
wiley   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

FACE AUX « FAUVES » EUROPÉENS. REPRÉSENTATION DANS LES LITTÉRATURES AFRICAINES FRANCOPHONES (Face to Face with European « Predators ». Representation in the African Francophone Literatures)

Ostium, 2018
The victims of the cruelty of beasts, the Africans die with the hand of Europeans who are entertained by killing without being ever punished. The death comes even without the participation of European, the colonizer is only its cause indirect.
Vojtěch Šarše
doaj  

Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
wiley   +1 more source